1. Writing a critical essay
…perhaps on “the veldt”…?

2. Choose a novel or a short story in which two of the main characters have a disagreement which is important to the outcome of the novel or short story. Identify the reasons for the disagreement and go on to show how the effects of the disagreement have an impact on the rest of the novel or short story.

3. Choose a novel or a short story in which two of the main characters have a disagreement which is important to the outcome of the novel or short story. Identify the reasons for the disagreement and go on to show how the effects of the disagreement have an impact on the rest of the novel or short story.

4. Choose a novel or a short story in which two of the main characters have a disagreement which is important to the outcome of the novel or short story.
Short story: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Main characters with a disagreement: George and Peter
Peter: Denied going to NY
The nursery as family
Relationship with George and Lydia

5. What problem?

6. Peter’s issue… Denied going to NY Sees the nursery as family
Relationship with George and Lydia

7. George’s issue…
Asked to look at the nursey…and perturbed by what he found
Relationship with Peter and Wendy
Asks help from David McClean

8. Choose a novel or a short story in which two of the main characters have a disagreement which is important to the outcome of the novel or short story.
Short story: “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury
Main characters with a disagreement: George and Peter
Main themes:
Technology
Family life
Dissatisfaction

10. Scrooge!

11. You couldn’t tap
an egg!

12. Identify the reasons for the disagreement and go on to show how the effects of the disagreement have an impact on the rest of the short story.
4 points; link to theme OR question
The disagreement was the refusal of George to let the kids go to New York; the children had been cold with their parents ever since.
Lydia, George’s wife and Peter’s mother, identifies something is “wrong” with the nursery. George investigates and finds it to be focused on an African veldt. He notices the hot sun and the lingering sense of death. Peter and Wendy are late home (role reversal and themes expressed) and wallet*
George asks Peter and Wendy to not be so fixated on Africa: “death thoughts.” Wendy changes it and George…? Issues orders! How do the kids react?
David McClean arrives and discusses the Nursery. Cue moral message. Lydia scarf*
The ending; dramatic and deadly. Personification of house and exploration of the main themes.